Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history. The find provides the first direct evidence of a connection ...

New research by a leading historian shows a surprising historical perspective on being British. In late medieval Scotland, the island of Britain was sometimes seen as fundamentally Scottish. This ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the 'Richard III treatment' to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university's early years. Study of over 400 remains from a ...

Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analyzed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons. Ancient red kites, ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...

For a thousand years, from Emperor Claudius to William the Conqueror, the British Isles were defined by invasion, each successive wave bringing something new to the mix. The Romans brought figurative ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...